Secretary General of the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party officials led by the party deputy secretary, Gerald Siranda, and the party vice president in charge of Buganda, Betty Nambooze, while appearing before the public service and local government committee of parliament which is scrutinizing the local government Amendment Bill 2016, said that government should consider giving ample time to voters and the updating of the register in addition to giving sufficient time for candidates to be
nominated and conduct campaigns.

Siranda said that the local government amendment bill 2016 should give the voters register display 7 days instead of 2 days as proposed in the bill to give much time to voters to identify the problems in the registers.

He also pleads to the committee to reject the government proposal in the bill that gives power to the electoral commission to preside over the tribunal that will receive complaints from voters over the problems in the voters register.

Citizens in the north eastern part of Karamoja while casting their votes in an election.

Siranda said that the commission should not be in charge of this tribunal since it was part of registration of the voters in voters register and instead advised that this role remains with parish tribunals to avoid biasness when there are disputes arising from the voters register.

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Addressing the press this morning at City house in Kampala, the DP National Chairman Mohammed Besweri Kezaala says that government has gone astray with the way they treat former FDC Presidential candidate Dr Kiiza Besigye on minor issues.

Democratic Party National chairman Mohammed Kezaala

This follows  Besigye’s detention at Moroto and later in Luzira where he is now on charges of treason.
Kezaala believes that a dialogue that includes all stakeholders will bear fruits and stop the on going wrangles between government and Opposition.

Kizza Besigye charged and remanded to Luzira Prison

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Mukono municipality MP Betty Nambooze Bakireke

Democratic party candidates in Mukono district  have protested the police actions of arresting their supporters  at political rallies. Addressing a joint press conference at the residence of the member of parliament for Mukono municipality Betty Nambooze said that police, Mukono RDC David Matovu and Brigadier Nalyeyiso are causing the arrest of their supporters without any crime committed.

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The Democratic Party leaders have urged the party flag bearers to work hard to gain support for the 2016 elections and enable the party win many elective posts. This call was during the flagging off of DP flag bearers in Mukono district by the party top leaders at St. Paul catholic church, Wantone in Mukono.

The party National Chairman, Beswale Kezala, warned DP flag bearers not to risk working for individual interests to gain wealth but to provide service to the community which will have voted them into office. The Buganda region vice president of the Democratic Party, Betty Nambooze Bakireke, and the MP for Busiro East. Merdad Segona, said that the party members should be ready to support one candidate with other opposition parties under The Democratic Alliance. Segona said that in Africa, there is no opposition party that can win elections single-handedly without support from other political parties.

Nambooze stressed that the party in the parliament should have more than 50 members of parliament, urging party members to have faith in the party flag bearers and warned them not to vote independent candidates.

The party National Treasurer, Isa Kikungwe, warned against the party members fighting the party and causing division.

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Mbidde said that when the party president Norbert Mao resumes work next week from sick leave, DP executive through, the established tribunal, will listen to all petitions from the party members who claim to have been treated unfairly in primaries and find the solution to the matter. He said that where irregularities are proved, the party may cancel the results and have fresh elections to have harmony in the party.

He however said that in some instances the party members’ fight shows the love for the party and added that this should threaten those in power because it shows that DP is soon unseating them.

Mbide said that he is leaving the DP Legal Advisor seat for the vice president of the party, to have DP’s structures revived in order for the party to capture power in few years to come.

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DP President General, Nobert Mao

Drama ensued at the Democratic Party headquarters this morning when a group of the newly elected members of the youth wing attacked the senior officials.

This was during the weekly party news conference held at City House.

Led by the group spokesman, Alex Waiswa, the youth are accusing the senior party members of failing the youth wing leadership by clinging onto power.

Waiswa says that many of the senior members have refused to vacate their former positions in the youth wing.

Pointing to former youth chairman, Kenneth Paul Kakande, the group asked the party president to intervene and streamline the party leadership to avoid further wrangling within in the party.

Meanwhile before the fracas, Kakande had addressed the media disowning the group and described it as illegal.

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In politics every person is important. Makerere University councilor Bernard Luyiga is now full of smiles after the president general of the Democratic Party (DP) Norbert Mao appointed his party’s special envoy in charge of universities.

Luyiga formerly a member of DP made an alliance with NRM councilors at Kampala City Council in a bid to become the deputy Lord Mayor. His actions politically shifted him from DP to NRM, at least in the eyes of political analysts.

Luyiga even went ahead and acquired police body guards. The people who may have queries’ on this issue (of gun) should ask Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. But Luyiga’s critics have been baffled after Mao appointed him the DP envoy in charge of Universities. Luyiga we hear has already accepted the appointment. Luyiga however denies reports that he crossed to NRM. He says it is only Lukwago’s questionable leadership in Kampala what makes him (Luyiga) to support NRM plots against Lukwago.

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In what looks like a provocation, the planning committee of the Democratic Party has sent invitations to ministers in president Museveni’s government inviting them for a closed door meeting at City House.

The City House building onLuwum   Streethouses the headquarters of the Democratic Party. The details on the invitation cards tell the ministers that President Museveni’s days at statehouse her over and the ministers are needed at City House to plan next government.

The message in the cards further informs the ministers that the next government after Museveni’s NRM is going to be DP thus the necessity of next Monday’s meeting at City house.

Sources at DP head offices says that the invitations to NRM leaders and ministers are intended to help them to jump the NRM ship and find a better leadership in the Democratic Party to follow.

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This is surely some good news for supporters of MP Brenda Nabukenya. The rumour we have got now is that she could be two months pregnant.

Nabukenya won the recent Luweero district woman MP by election polls. Her close pals in DP rumored to us that she could be pregnant and the man responsible if it is true she is pregnant is not yet known to the press.

We are not confirming that the legislator is pregnant. But it is only rumoured that she could be pregnant. DP insiders tell us that if it is true the legislator is pregnant, the man responsible could be one of the vibrant and loaded men in the Democratic Party.

Some of the vibrant and loaded men in the democratic Party include Deputy Lord Mayor, Sulaiman Kidandala, DP Legal advisor and Mukasa Mbidde. Our investigation team is going on to investigate whether really the MP is pregnant. Remember Brenda is not yet blessed with a baby.

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For the Democratic Party (DP) the story is not so different. MPs Betty Nambooze and Lulume Bayiga have already been branded rebels for their parallel views. Now the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) of Col. Kiiza Besigye has also named MPs Reagan Okumu, Geoffrey Ekanya, and Nabillah Sempala over their parallel views about the party administrations.

The FDC rebel MPs have now threatened to tire FDC apart if the leaders of FDC don’t reconcile with them. Wait for more details in our next report coming shortly.

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